Roseanne Supernault

Roseanne Supernault is a Vancouver-based actress from East Prairie Metis Settlement. She became known for her role in the APTN series Blackstone, which brought her several accolades, and for Maina, a pre-contact historical epic in which she played the title character and won Best Actress at the American Indian Film Festival. She appeared in Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), a film that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was named a TIFF Top 10. Both Blackstone and that film secured US distribution. Trained in theater, film, and television, she graduated from Victoria School of the Arts. Her stage work included Dreary and Izzy, playing a First Nations woman with FASD, which drew rave reviews. She also began teaching and writing, creating Next Gen Acting Workshops and screenplays, and was accepted into an Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship associated with the Whistler Film Festival.